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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 17, 2003

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HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DOW?

It's up. Up over 500 points since the congress passed and Bush signed the tax cut bill.

Now, remember. There are several Democrats running for the presidency who have vowed that their first legislative initiative would be to turn around these Bush tax cuts.

HAVE SOME PEOPLE TOTALLY LOST THEIR ABILITY TO THINK?

Here is the first paragraph of a letter I received recently from one Henry Allen Bishop of Fern Park, Florida:

"I have been listening to your rhetoric on the radio for the past couple of days. I think you have a lot of gaul (sic) to be talking about the so called welfare bill. Have you ever thought that mabey (sic) people are going thru training and mabey while they are going to school they might need assistance, also there are certain people in our society they does (sic) need help because they fell thru the cracks."

What is it with these people? How can they fail to see that there is something wrong with government using force to seize the property of one person in order to simply give it to another? Does Mr. Bishop believe that it would be OK for him to go out there and find someone with what he feels is an excessive amount of money, and then use force to take some of that money from that person so that he can give it to someone else who "need(s) help because they fell thru the cracks?" Well, If Henry Allen Bishop can't do that on his own, how does he propose to grant to government the permission to do that for him?

Bishop's letter goes to (a) condemn the rich, (b) praise the Lord, and (c) condemn "hate radio." It ends with this wonderful thought:

"Hey Neil (sic) why don't you tie a tail to your ass and run around going oink, oink, oink or maybe wee, wee wee and then jump into a pen and then you can be a real PIG."

Some folks out there are thoroughly frightening.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS CAME FROM THE WORLD OF ACADEMIA?

Now that you've taken a trip into the mind of Henry Allen Bishop from Fern Park, Florida, maybe you'll feel better after hearing the following quotation from Professor Gary Galles of Pepperdine University:

"How can there possibly be liberty and justice for all, when, in the name of justice, people claim rights to income, food, housing, education, health care, transportation, ad infinitum? We can't. Positive rights to receive such things, absent an obligation to earn them, must violate others' liberty, by taking some of their income without their consent. They are really just wishes, convertible into benefits for some only by employing the government to violate others' rights not to have what is theirs taken."

If you want your child to benefit from a college education without exposing them to the rancid political correctness of the academic left, perhaps you should consider Pepperdine.

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

No ... I never delivered my commencement speech at a college or university. No ... I didn't deliver it at Texas A&M. But I am flattered by the many wonderful comments I've received about the speech, which was actually delivered on my show about three weeks ago. Yes, it's available on the Internet. Here's your link.
http://www.boortz.com/more/commencement.html

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK ... NOT EXACTLY A HISTORIAN

Retired Army General Wesley Clark has been very effective in keeping his face and opinions in the media forefront the past year or so. There's a reason for that. Political aspirations. Clark is toying with the idea of announcing as a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Truth is, he's after the number two spot. Vice Presidential candidate for now, the Oval Office Later.

Clark was a guest on Tim Russert's Meet the Press this past Sunday. The questioning turned to Clark's political ambitions and his feelings on the Bush tax cut. Clark says that he would not have supported the tax cuts ... and gave the following reason:

"Well, first of all, they were not efficient in terms of stimulating the kind of demand we need to move the economy back into a recovery mode, a strong recovery and a recovery that provides jobs. There are more effective ways of using the resources. Secondly, the tax cuts weren't fair. I mean, the people that need the money and deserve the money are the people who are paying less, not the people who are paying more. I thought this country was founded on a principle of progressive taxation."

Sorry, General Clark. You have the Constitution of the United States mixed up with the Communist Manifesto. Don't feel bad though. This is a very common problem with Democrats. Your political bedmates just can't seem to tell the difference between the two, and apparently neither can you.

This country was most definitely NOT founded on the principle of progressive taxation. In fact, the Supreme Court ruled that a progressive income tax was unconstitutional! It was only after the States ratified the 16 thAmendment to the Constitution that a progressive income tax became possible.

So, just where does this idea of progressive taxation come from? Since you're running for president, General Clark, we would have hoped you would have known this. But, since you don't, I have a little reading assignment for you. It's a document written in 1848 by two characters named Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. It's called the "Manifesto of the Communist Party." "Communist Manifesto" for short.

Buried in the middle of the Communist Manifesto you will find a list of things that will have to be accomplished in the "most advanced countries" in order to bring about the realization of the dream of a proletariat revolution. You don't have to read far on that list, General Clark, to see where just what type of government is founded on the principle of progressive taxation. Item number two reads "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."

So, General Clark. There you go. It's not the United States that was founded on the principle of progressive taxation ... it's Communism. It would have been nice if Mr. Russert had been aware of this fact, but even if he were it would have made no difference. Tim Russert has made his opposition to tax cuts for people who actually pay taxes very clear over the past year.

You might also be interested in knowing, General Clark, that Item number 10 on the Communist Manifesto list is "Free education for all children in public schools..."

That's government schools, General Clark. You might want to avoid saying that government schools were one of the founding principles of the United States. They weren't.

Some advice, General Clark: If you intend to pursue your run for the Vice Presidential nomination it might be advisable to refrain from citing portions of The Communist Manifesto as part of the founding principles of our country.

YEAH .. IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THAT PESKY EXIT EXAM

Years and years of government paternalism and the politics of the left are really taking their toll. Day after day we hear that those in our society who have achieved success and wealth did so because they were lucky. Those who exist on minimum wage with no prospects of a better job are the "less fortunate." Luck is everything. Achievement counts for nothing. The message is clear. There is no need for you to strive to learn. There is no need for you to go the extra mile. A comfortable life is yours as a birthright. The government exists to provide for your needs. A job, housing, food and a "decent wage" are yours by right, not something you have to go out there and earn.

This message is not lost on tens of thousands of high school students across the year. In Florida, New York, Massachusetts and elsewhere high school seniors are outraged because they aren't going to get their high school diplomas. These diplomas aren't something they had to earn. They have a right to them. After all, they attended the high school for four years, didn't they?

Karl Kearnes is a senior at Burke High in Boston. He failed the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam. He isn't going to get a diploma, and it isn't at all his fault. "It's not fair." he says. Then he blames the test. He would get his diploma if that "MCAS wasn't thrown in (his) face."

Yeah, it's the test's fault. It had nothing to do with the fact that Karl Kearnes couldn't answer the questions on a ridiculously simple test that 92% of his fellow seniors passed.

Across the country school boards and parents are fighting these assessment tests. The very idea that a high school student should have certain standards to meet is being fought from coast to coast.

What kind of a society are we building here? What kind of world will it when the majority of people finally discover that they bear no responsibility whatsoever for their failure to learn and their failure to develop the basic skills that are (or should be) required to survive in our society.

Go ahead, my friends. Keep standing behind this system of government education. It clearly isn't working, and there is no sign that things are ever going to get better. We'll just continue to pour more and more money into these systems while they continue to crank out teenagers who can barely write their own name.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Thomas Sowell has a question: Why should senior citizens be singled out to be subsidized by the taxpayers for their prescription drugs? Could the answer lie in one word? Votes? Yeah, I know you're tired of hearing about this ... but congress is about to create yet another hideously expensive and unnecessary spending program, and your children are going to be left to pick up the tab. Doesn't that mean something to you? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20030617.shtml

Monday's Best of the Web.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003634

This BBC poll says that the world is generally hostile toward the United States. Fine. OK, fine. So they don't like us. As long as they fear us.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2994924.stm

And another column on this idea that the world hates America. Don't take it personally though. Americans they like .. it's our military power that seems to upset so many folks.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030616-093352-1599r.htm

America's mainstream media keeps telling you that things are rough in Iraq. They don't like us. They want us to leave. Everywhere you look there's "chaos." But, is this the way things really are over there? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Crespo20030617.shtml

Now here's another great question, this time from Mona Charen: "Isn't it strange that the very same people who were prepared to give the United Nations weapons inspectors months and even years to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are screaming after just a few weeks that our failure to discover them is proof of a hoax?"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/mc20030617.shtml

US Troops in the Mideast? Fergitaboutit!
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030617-124530-8135r.htm

Have you heard of al Awda? That's Arabic for "the return." It's a group of former Saddam Hussein cronies who are linking up with al Qaeda for a full-scale uprising against American troops in Iraq.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030616-113913-8670r.htm
 
 

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